PDF Inspector
firecrawl/pdf-inspector
Firecrawl’s PDF inspector tooling for extracting / inspecting PDF content in agent pipelines. GitHub: firecrawl/pdf-inspector (~14k stars).
GitHub repository
Overview
PDF Inspector is the open-source project at firecrawl/pdf-inspector on GitHub (https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector). Firecrawl’s PDF inspector tooling for extracting / inspecting PDF content in agent pipelines. Category on LimeDock: growth. Approximate community size: ~14k GitHub stars. Repo (copy/paste): https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector This LimeDock Directories page explains what it is and how teams use it in plain English — so searches for the GitHub project can land on a practical guide.
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Installation guide
Open the GitHub repository, then follow the README for your stack.
Official GitHub repository: https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector GitHub path: firecrawl/pdf-inspector
How to open it: 1. Copy this URL: https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector 2. Clone or follow the README install for your OS / stack. 3. Start with the smallest example in their docs before production use.
How to use it
**Simple example** Sales decks and reports are PDFs and your agent can’t read them well.
1. Follow the repo setup. 2. Inspect one PDF. 3. Pass extracted text into your CRM note or summary prompt.
Example prompts
- “Inspect this PDF and summarize pricing tables.”
- “PDF Inspector vs MarkItDown for our pipeline?”
- “Batch-inspect inbound proposal PDFs.”
Use cases and examples
- Evaluate firecrawl/pdf-inspector for your stack
- Onboard a teammate to PDF Inspector with a shared checklist
- Compare PDF Inspector against tools you already pay for
- Capture lessons in your internal wiki after a pilot
Prerequisites
- PDFs you may process
- Runtime deps
Tips
- Validate extraction on scanned PDFs.
- Mind PII in documents.